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From my experience, cycling specific clothes aren't worth it for most people. I ride my bike every day usually with jeans or shorts. If you have good saddle it doesn't matter that you don't have padding.
As for running I didn't run in a long time so can't help.
For cycling, I think it depends on speed here. I agree with anything under 15mph (24km/h) you're not going super hard, but when I was biking every day, I could see the use of bike shorts when I was biking harder. (Chafing sucks)
I find the chaffing to be really bad when it’s hot. Cycling shorts help a lot with that for me. Having said that, I will ride a city bike during summer and wear normal shorts.
It depend on your morphology I guess: for me below 15km rides, I can wear jeans and it's fine, but above that it starts to be painful. When I'm touring I really enjoy having my cycling pant, even a cheap one does the job perfectly for me. But again, I have a quite large distance between my ischium bones, so the same may not apply to everyone.
I would agree, clothes have never really affected me. I did a 150 km ride around my city wearing jorts and a wind breaker.